Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“josef holub”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “josef holub”
Skip side bar filters

  • Innocent Soldier

    by Josef Holub ...
    Illustrated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The critically acclaimed 2006 Mildred L. Batchelder Award-winning story of two boys caught up in an unwinnable war--now in paperback with After Words bonus features.Adam is a farmhand conscripted by Napoleon's army, which is gathering strength for its campaign against Russia. Sergeant Krauter makes Adam the victim of his most sadistic urges. But when an aristocratic young lieutenant spots Adam and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Lady Macbeth's Daughter

    by Lisa Klein ...
    Raised by three strange sisters, Albia has never known the secrets of her parentage. But when Macbeth seeks out the weird sisters to foretell his fate, his life is entangled with his unknown daughter's. When Albia foresees the terrible future, she becomes determined to save Macbeth's rival-and the man she loves-from her murderous father. Klein's seamlessly drawn tale makes it seem impossible that ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • The War I Finally Won

    by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ...
    **A New York Times bestsellerLike the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain and Tall, Little Women, and Anne of Green Gables, Ada is a fighter for the ages. Her triumphant World War II journey continues in this sequel to the Newbery Honor–winning The War that Saved My Life**When Ada awakes from surgery on her club foot, the news that greets her will change the course of her life. Doors that her mother ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Jewel of the Kalderash

    by Marie Rutkoski ...
    Series Book 3 - The Kronos Chronicles
    Petra and friends fight to save her father and stop a villainous prince and his army of monsters in this fantasy trilogy finale by the New York Times –bestselling author."Bittersweet, yet hopeful, with an understated romance, this is a fitting finale for a distinctive series." — BooklistPetra Kronos's father has been transformed into one of Prince Rodolfo's monstrous Gray... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Castle Diary

    The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page

    by Richard Platt ...
    Illustrated by Chris Riddell ...
    "Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering."-- SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with CASTLE DIARY: THE JOURNAL OF TOBIAS BURGESS. Eleven-year-old Toby’s vivid diary entries offer an insider’s view of day-to-day castle life ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Kronos Chronicles

    The Cabinet of Wonders, The Celestial Globe, and The Jewel of the Kalderash

    by Marie Rutkoski ...
    Series series Kronos Chronicles
    Petra Kronos has a simple, happy life. But it's never been ordinary. She has a pet tin spider who likes to hide in her hair and give her advice. And her brilliant father has been commissioned by the prince of Bohemia to build the world's finest astronomical clock. When the prince steals her father’s eyes to wear them as his own, Petra sets off for Prague to steal her father's eyes back. And that ... Read more

    $38.22 USD

  • Horse Diaries #14: Calvino

    Illustrated by Ruth Sanderson ...
    by Whitney Sanderson ...
    Series Book 14 - Horse Diaries
    For all lovers of horses and history! This latest book in the Horse Diaries series features an Andalusian horse in romantic sixteenth-century Spain.Southern Spain, 1570sCalvino is a dapple-gray Andalusian stallion. He grew up driving cattle in the mountains, but soon he catches the eye of King Philip II’s horse master. Now Calvino and his young rider, Rico, must learn the complicated moves of doma ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Will in Scarlet

    by Matthew Cody ...
    This reimagining of the Robin Hood legend tells the story of the young boy behind the bandit hero's rise to fame.Will Shackley is the son of a lord, and though just thirteen, he’s led a charmed, protected life and is the heir to Shackley House, while his father is away on the Third Crusade with King Richard the Lionheart.But with King Richard’s absence, the winds of treason are blowing across ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Liberty's Fire

    by Lydia Syson ...
    Paris, 1871. Four young people will rewrite their destinies.Paris is in revolt. After months of siege at the hands of the Prussians, a wind of change is blowing through the city, bringing with it murmurs of a new revolution. Alone and poverty-stricken, sixteen-year-old Zéphyrine is quickly lured in by the ideals of the city's radical new government, and she finds herself swept away by its promises ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Through the Skylight

    by Ian Baucom ...
    Illustrated by Justin Gerard ...
    Two tantalizing tales, magically intertwined, cross cultures and span centuries as three kids set out to save the lives of three others—who just happen to live in the Middle Ages!A stone lion roars...A sleek black cat speaks...A faun leaps from the canvas of a painting...When Jared, Shireen, and Miranda are each given one glittering gift from an old Venetian shopkeeper, they never fathom the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Case of the Perilous Palace (The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency, Book 4)

    by Jordan Stratford ...
    Illustrated by Kelly Murphy ...
    Series Book 4 - The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency
    The history-mystery-science series continues as the Wollstonecraft Detectives--Ada Byron Lovelace and Mary Shelley--take on a case by royal request.Ada's imperious grandmother has absolutely shut the Wollstonecraft Detective Agency down--until they get a case from a princess, that is.The princess Alexandrina Victoria, age 9 (who will grow up to be Queeen Victoria), is the most closely watched girl ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Mesmerist

    by Ronald L. Smith ...
    Thirteen-year-old Jessamine Grace and her mother make a living as sham spiritualists—until they discover that Jess is a mesmerist and that she really can talk to the dead. Soon she is plunged into the dark world of Victorian London's supernatural underbelly and learns that the city is under attack by ghouls, monsters, and spirit summoners. Can Jess fight these powerful forces? And will the group ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook